Sentence Examples:
• The fact of so little cultivation does not abnegate the existence of industry on the part of the villagers. Grazing is their occupation, not farming; only a little of the latter to give them maize for their tortillas, chile to season it with, and black beans to complete the repast. -The War Trail, Mayne Reid

• No government can, voluntarily, relinquish its powers, and abnegate its authority without thereby inviting disorder, disquietude, and, in the end, its destruction.- History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China J. V. N. Talmage

• In the vanity typical of the insecure, they abnegate all foreign knowledge. They rarely know a second language sufficiently to read it. -After the Rain, Sam Vaknin